English / Map Form: Auchleven
Gaelic Form: Achadh Leamhain
Location: Insch
Post Town: Insch
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Auchleven
Gaelic Form: Achadh Leamhain
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In the dialect pronounced Ach-lay-ven, nearly Ach-ley-ven. Ach leamhain, elm field; or perhaps luibhean, herbs in general: Alexander 1952, 154 [He also gives early forms, the first of which is Achinlevyn.]
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